Liam Liburd

A number of columnists and commentators have pointed to something disturbingly imperial in some of the arguments in favour of Brexit. Few, however, have looked to the academic study of British national identity or imperial

Recently I was lucky enough to interview two of the few remaining ‘veterans’ of the 'Battle' that took place on Cable Street eighty years ago, on the 4th of October 1936, when Jewish and Irish residents,

Over the last four years the right-leaning papers have exhausted themselves with every attempt to emasculate, embarrass and smear the (now former) leader of the Opposition, Ed Miliband. These attacks only intensified as the

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